Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 02:48:04AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
Further plans: 1) We seriously want to tackle the elimination of the PREEMPT_RT annoyance #1, aka BKL. The Big Kernel Lock is still used in ~330 files all across the kernel. A lot of work has been done already to push down the lock into the code which still thinks it needs to be protected by it. Some work has been done already in the (a little bit stale) kill-the-BKL and core/kill-the-BKL branches of the -tip git tree. If you want to help, please check those branches whether the code has been tackled already or not to avoid redundant work. If you decide to take care of one please note it on: http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Big_Kernel_LockWe (I) can't write to this file :) However, I'll try to attack the remaining bkl that resides in tty...
I took a look at the perms, then the history - looks like you sorted it out. -- Darren Hart IBM Linux Technology Center Real-Time Linux Team -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
